The Girl with the Fragile Mind

The Girl with the Fragile Mind
Claire Seeber

SHE CAN’T TRUST ANYONE . . . NOT EVEN HERSELF'I think I might have done something bad.’When a bomb explodes in the heart of London, the police suspect a terrorist group. But the pieces don't fit together and they struggle to find any suspects.Still recovering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after a terrible tragedy, Claudie fears that her recent black-outs are a sign that her symptoms are returning. So when her friend Tessa dies in the explosion, Claudie is gripped by the inexplicable certainty that she is involved in some way – if only she could remember.Can Claudie get to the heart of what is real and what isn't . . . before something truly terrifying happens again?

Claire Seeber

The Girl with The Fragile Mind

Copyright

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First published in Great Britain as Fragile Minds by HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2011

This edition published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 2015

Copyright © Claire Seeber 2011

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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ISBN-13: 9781847562074

Ebook edition © MARCH 2015 ISBN: 9780008142421

Version: 2016-03-12

Praise for Claire Seeber

‘An intense psychological thriller’

OK!

‘An absorbing page-turner’

Closer

‘A powerful and sensitive treatment of every parent’s worst nightmare’

Laura Wilson, The Guardian

Dedication

For Fenn and Raffi, again.

All my love, always.

And in memory of my beloved grandpa,

Roy Livingstone Holmes.

Lemonade lollies forever.

Epigraph

‘Whoever takes one life, takes the world entire,

Whoever saves a single life, saves the world entire.’

The Talmud

‘No rescue? What, a prisoner? I am even

The natural fool of fortune. Use me well.’

King Lear, Act IV, Scene VI

Contents

Cover (#u09222f91-dff7-573e-a593-c7771ec5c742)

Title Page (#u94f77b6c-64cb-59da-a99d-4e71e0c88803)

Copyright (#ue59bfea4-968e-53f3-997a-7ea83638cc64)

Praise (#u927b3e52-1a57-5041-a9eb-2a28da6083e2)

Dedication (#u930e15d5-c8f3-5dfc-9c19-354783695ce0)

Epigraph (#udb9bda25-af33-5397-b896-2516b6152b62)

Prologue (#ud5f9ae85-7e90-5089-a277-38c2b2969eac)

Thursday 13th July Claudie (#u59dcc823-58ef-5b3d-be7d-ce3487e18568)

Thursday 13th July Silver (#u28759475-ad0a-55bf-8ea5-0d87086599a5)